Quote from Brenna on April 16, 2019, 9:08 am

I reached out to Kendra Morgan, the PLA Chair of the Opioid Crisis Response Committee, with the following message:

Hello,

 

I am a Library Director from Vienna, WV.  I am currently working with a number of other colleagues to put together a One Book, One Community Read program, focused on the Opioid Crisis that has ravaged our area, scheduled for sometime in the coming year. We are considering Beth Macy's Dopesick or Dreamland by Sam Quinones as our book selection.  We are excited to hear that the PLA will be doing their own research on the Opioid Crisis and the way that Libraries are involved in the response.  Please let us know if there are resources that we might be able to take advantage of moving forward with our program or if we might be able to help in someway with your work.

This was her response:

Hi Brenna,

Thanks for reaching out, and I’m glad to hear your library will be able to help your community with an aspect of this crisis. The book selection is a great approach.

 

We have been sharing resources through the project web page, and also through a Facebook group. I had been thinking about creating a guide for community read programming, and your email prompted me to post a request to the Facebook group to see if anyone wants to share materials, discussion guides, etc. Both Dopesick and Dreamland have a fair number of discussion guide content online that have been shared, but we’re always interested in how libraries are approaching things. I’ll let you know if I get any submissions – often it works best for me to ask someone directly to share instead of a broad post, but you never know!

 

We’re expecting the case study research to be published by the end of June,  and we’re looking forward to sharing that with the field.

 

Kind regards,

Kendra

https://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/opioid-crisis/news.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/librariesopioidcrisis/

Both are good resources, I think.  I especially liked the addition of articles on the Facebook page.

I am a Library Director from Vienna, WV.  I am currently working with a number of other colleagues to put together a One Book, One Community Read program, focused on the Opioid Crisis that has ravaged our area, scheduled for sometime in the coming year. We are considering Beth Macy's Dopesick or Dreamland by Sam Quinones as our book selection.  We are excited to hear that the PLA will be doing their own research on the Opioid Crisis and the way that Libraries are involved in the response.  Please let us know if there are resources that we might be able to take advantage of moving forward with our program or if we might be able to help in someway with your work.